Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 32695

Prescription Drugs: Rural Areas

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 26 February 2025
Named Day

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the supply of prescription medicines in (a) rural and (b) other areas.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Integrated care boards are responsible for understanding the health needs of their areas and commissioning services to meet those needs. Local authorities are required to undertake a pharmaceutical needs assessment every three years, to assess whether the...

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